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You may wonder why Finland’s education authorities now insist that all schools must spend time on integration and phenomenon-based teaching when Finnish students’ test scores have been declining in the most recent international tests. The answer is that educators in Finland think, quite correctly, that schools should teach what young people need in their lives rather than try to bring national test scores back to where they were.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/03/26/no-finlands-schools-arent-giving-up-traditional-subjects-heres-what-the-reforms-will-really-do/

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DiVersionary Tactics…

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(via Britain mourns a monster – because he was a king. Richard III’s burial was absurd | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian)

As they say in Yorkshire “There’s none so queer as folk.”

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A gentle stroll from Blackfriars station to the Inner Temple and the church of the Knights Templar and then on to Temple underground station.

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This is my first solo piano composition and is based on improvisations using my Yamaha keyboard. I then re-worked the takes on my Digital Audio Workstation. I am now working on the notation for this piece. The title is a reflection of the piece which begins in a classical mode and then just when you think it will continue it changes direction.

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A piece that I hope, evokes the freshness after heavy rainfall.

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A piece that I hope evokes the freshness after heavy rainfall.

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https://soundcloud.com/polaris6424/after-the-rain

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A track i just enjoyed by Realaze2 called Online.

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One of my favourite jazz groups is the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) from the 1960s. This is a gentle nod in their direction and a hoplessly inadequate attempt at what was then called "cool" jazz. Nevertheless, I think it has its moments ;-). As some of you will notice, I am still on a learning curve.

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https://soundcloud.com/polaris6424/jazzper-one

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https://soundcloud.com/polaris6424/the-butterfly-effect

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My new sounds:

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My new sounds:

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A mood piece that in my mind conjours up oddly behaving electrons and lights in the sky as well as intoxicated robots at a disco.